Seventeen

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Seventeen years ago, Zhou Xiaochuan, then president of one of China's oldest and largest banks, wrote an essay in an economics bimonthly magazine addressing the hottest policy topic of the day: a controversial new government program that let selected state-owned companies unwind loans they couldn’t repay with massive equity transfers to banks.

AD TECH SHOPPING SPREE: For years, as the burgeoning advertising technology industry became flooded with venture backed startups, it was common to hear the remark, “this can’t last, right? Some of these companies have to go away.”

Al Hirschfeld’s stylized drawings of stars and scenes are the subject of an exhibit called ‘The Hirschfeld Century’ at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, opening May 22. Here, a look at some of his works.

The Beirut-born poet, essayist and artist—who found fame late in life with her small-scale paintings and forceful prose—has two simultaneous shows this spring at Galerie Lelong in Paris and New York City.